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LOT 1443
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 - 4 1/4 in. (387 grams total, 8.4-10.7 cm).
Of triangular form each with a broad cutting edge and narrow butt. [3, Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.119, for type.
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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Triangular burin; with an old inked inscription: '2.PB.1282.C / Twydall'. 48 grams, 70 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead and Hammerstone Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Comprising two small polished D-shaped axeheads and one with a square butt; sub-spherical hammerstone. 394 grams total, 48-55 mm
Found North Africa. From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Sahara Speckled Stone Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Including one with angled cutting edge, one with gouged blade, and other types. 461 grams total, 69-98 mm
Found North Africa. Ex Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, UK. From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
